A food processing system includes a base and an actuator that is releasably mounted to the base. The actuator may have an unactuated position and an actuated position. Numerous accessories each may be individually and interchangeably mountable to and releasable from at least one of the base and the actuator. Each attachment may perform a food processing function when the actuator is moved from the unactuated position to the actuated position.

A sheet material processing device 3 for performing processing on a having-been-conveyed sheet material along a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction of the sheet material, includes: a blade member 4 including an upper blade part 42 and a lower blade part 41 that extend in the perpendicular direction and then pressing both blade parts 41 and 42 to each other so as to perform predetermined processing on the sheet material located between both blade parts; a pressing mechanism 5 for pressing both blade parts to each other; and a moving mechanism 6 for moving the blade member in the perpendicular direction, wherein in the upper blade part 42, a processing blade 421 is formed at one or more sites in the perpendicular direction, and wherein in the lower blade part 41, a receiving part for the processing blade is formed over the section facing the processing blade 421.

A sheet material processing device 3 for performing processing on a having-been-conveyed sheet material along a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction of the sheet material, includes: a blade member 4 including an upper blade part 42 and a lower blade part 41 that extend in the perpendicular direction and then pressing both blade parts 41 and 42 to each other so as to perform predetermined processing on the sheet material located between both blade parts; a pressing mechanism 5 for pressing both blade parts to each other; and a moving mechanism 6 for moving the blade member in the perpendicular direction, wherein in the upper blade part 42, a processing blade 421 is formed at one or more sites in the perpendicular direction, and wherein in the lower blade part 41, a receiving part for the processing blade is formed over the section facing the processing blade 421.

A method for manufacturing a material strand assembly for a vehicle. The method includes: extruding strand material in an extruder so that an extruded material strand is produced; monitoring the quality of the extruded material strand so as to detect faults of the extruded material strand; in case of a detection of a fault, cutting out the fault from the material strand and re-joining cutting end faces, thus producing a joint, so that a faultless material strand is produced. The cutting-out step is conducted such that any two adjacent joints are at a minimum joint distance from each other. The faultless material strand is stored in a storage unit so as to produce the material strand assembly. The extruded material strand is passed through a first strand accumulator between the extruder and the cutting arrangement and through a second strand accumulator between the cutting arrangement and the storage unit.

A method for manufacturing a material strand assembly for a vehicle. The method includes: extruding strand material in an extruder so that an extruded material strand is produced; monitoring the quality of the extruded material strand so as to detect faults of the extruded material strand; in case of a detection of a fault, cutting out the fault from the material strand and re-joining cutting end faces, thus producing a joint, so that a faultless material strand is produced. The cutting-out step is conducted such that any two adjacent joints are at a minimum joint distance from each other. The faultless material strand is stored in a storage unit so as to produce the material strand assembly. The extruded material strand is passed through a first strand accumulator between the extruder and the cutting arrangement and through a second strand accumulator between the cutting arrangement and the storage unit.

A hand-held and operated device for splitting rehabilitative elastic tape into segments and rounding corners of the rehabilitative elastic tape segments and method of use is disclosed. The device comprises a feed roll of rehabilitative elastic tape, and a housing. The housing is comprised of a vertical cutting mechanism and a cutting die punch mechanism operably coupled in tandem. There are a plurality of actuator buttons operably coupled to and aligned with the blades for setting the blades to either a cutting position or a non-cutting position. The cutting die punch mechanism is comprised of a pair of mating tools, a die punch and a cutting die. The die punch is adapted to be moved into the cutting die by hand and attain the closest possible mating of said members for cutting or forming the rounded corners of a tape segment when the tape is fed into the punching mechanism.

A hand-held and operated device for splitting rehabilitative elastic tape into segments and rounding corners of the rehabilitative elastic tape segments and method of use is disclosed. The device comprises a feed roll of rehabilitative elastic tape, and a housing. The housing is comprised of a vertical cutting mechanism and a cutting die punch mechanism operably coupled in tandem. There are a plurality of actuator buttons operably coupled to and aligned with the blades for setting the blades to either a cutting position or a non-cutting position. The cutting die punch mechanism is comprised of a pair of mating tools, a die punch and a cutting die. The die punch is adapted to be moved into the cutting die by hand and attain the closest possible mating of said members for cutting or forming the rounded corners of a tape segment when the tape is fed into the punching mechanism.

A cutter device, comprising: a first blade including a first cutting edge extending in a first direction; a second blade including a second cutting edge extending in a second direction; and a guide portion provided at a position anterior to the second blade in the second direction, wherein the second blade moves in the second direction to cut a recording medium while leaving a part thereof uncut, and when the second blade is located posterior, in the second direction, to a position where the second blade cuts the recording medium, at least a part of the guide portion is located to protrude farther in the first direction than the first cutting edge, or located at a same position as the first cutting edge.

A tape detection mechanism including a first pivoting member provided to pivot about a detection pivoting shaft, a second pivoting member linked, to be configured to pivot, to a pivot linking portion provided on the first pivoting member, a pivoting contact section with which the second pivoting member comes into contact when the first pivoting member and the second pivoting member pivot in a first pivoting direction about the detection pivoting shaft as the tape, which is fed thereto, comes into contact with the first pivoting member, and a sensor which detects the second pivoting member which comes into contact with the pivoting contact section.

An adhesive film having at least one adhesive layer, where the adhesive layer satisfies the following requirements (a) to (c): (a) a diffusion coefficient of nitrogen gas of at least 1.510.sup.6 cm.sup.2/sec; (b) a shear modulus G (1 Hz) of 510.sup.2 to 1.010.sup.5 Pa, at a measurement temperature of 25 C. and a frequency of 1 Hz; and (c) an absorption peak at from 800 to 820 cm.sup.1 and no absorption peak at from 1,000 to 1,020 cm.sup.1, in an infrared absorption spectrum.